The Continuing Education Unit at the College of Administration and Economics, in cooperation with the Department of Business Administration, has organized a scientific symposium entitled (The crime of electronic extortion against women: causes and treatments) that was presented by the lecturer Dr. Suha Jamal, and the director of the continuing education unit, Assist. lecturer Nadia Shaker Hussein stressed on this online crime as one of the serious crimes that pose a threat to the security of society in addition to its impact on social aspects, as it leads to family disintegration and the occurrence of problems that lead to divorce and loss of confidence in addition to psychological effects, such as anxiety, fear, and depression. This crime is characterized by difficulty in proving it because it is one of the modern crimes and that the perpetrator uses modern technology to commit his crime.
The symposium concluded with a set of recommendations, the most important of which is to promote the concept of self-confidence by delivering important information for the purpose of organizing the ideas of a person’s life that lead to the organization of controlling his feelings and practical verbal or motor behavior and then building his personality and determining his fate and clarifying the concept of freedom in the right way to do what we want without prejudice to the limits of the freedom of others and the establishment of intensive media campaigns to cover this topic and spread the culture of good dealing with social networking programs and periodic and intensive announcement of the fate of criminals and punishing the blackmailers openly, so everyone should respect the privacy of others without any violation of their rights, avoid accepting friend requests by unknown people, not respond to any conversation received from an unknown source, also avoid sharing our personal information on the Internet.